Well Ill tell you an old story Boss recently I found a copy of Half-Life lying around and it had a code on the case and then I inserted the numbers into the product verification and I received the whole Half-Life complete edition for free.

I did that as well, to get HL1 and the other games. I presume they did that because they couldn't ID what game was what with the code, so they just decided to give people all of them, fair enough, nice move that you don't see too often, as they easily could have just decided that you can't use the code at all, and if you wanted those games on the steam account, then you'd have to buy them again.

On another aspect to this, the game retailers such as EB, they might as well throw their weight on something like OnLive. The craziest thing about onlive is that they only need one copy of a game for each player at that point in time, meaning they would only need something like 10% or thereabouts of the copies to satisfy demand, the publishers won't like it at all.

I've also read other comments that maybe they're trying to push out the gamers who don't buy new games, since the consoles are subsidised, and if they don't buy new games, then the console makers are making a loss on those customers.

I wouldn't be surprised if they started to look at market segments, and starting to aim the console and system at the premium end of the market, like a lot of other industries, where you have entry level, mid range and premium products. Maybe they do want to just service the people who will pay more, and leave all the bottom feeders to scramble on steam sales.

True, but I don't know what there going to do their companies and company business models are fukked in the video game industry if this happens more often than I will pirate more often so they get the picture and get my consoles chipped I hope they smarten up.

The team felt it missed the huge freedom of open-world games like Skyrim Proper mounted combat still being tested Currently not a definite part of the game Horses will be in, though, since they’re important for navigation Ships float on the water in true physics interactions Team has doubled in size No chapters, acts, or any artificial break-points Geralt can seamlessly cross from one end of the world to the other thanks to REDengine 3 No loading screens while traveling in the open world Can explore on foot, by horseback, and via boat Pursue your long-lost love, play the game of empires on behalf of the northern kingdoms that still claim independence, and thwart the nefarious Wild Hunt Fast travel: instantly revisit any discovered location Director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz: “A huge goal is to keep the high quality of our quests, with all the cinematics and impressive events and moments.” Point of interest will always be in sight Players will be beckoned to explore dank caves, embattled villages, decaying ruins, etc. Over 100 hours of hand-scripted quests Quests: help villagers, engineer the succession of the Skellige kings, etc. Use monster hunting for adventure, incoming, and unique rewards There are mini-games based on the area of the world Ex: Skellige has knife-throwing Gain exclusive rewards from mini-games Don’t have to complete mini-games to proceed in the story Monsters, bandits, traders, animals, and more will attack anyone they deem hostile Enemies don’t scale to the player’s level Slaying monsters, fighting hostile humans in the different forms they come in, collecting items, leveling up are in the game World 40 times larger than the last game Three different aspects to narration Lowest level: free-form activities like monster hunting, crafting, individual standalone quests Second step: political situation and Nilfgaardian invasion is resolved through the core plotline of the major areas (Skellige, Novigrad, No Man’s Land) Each land has its own storyline Can abandon the storyline, but will have repercussions later Not doing a plotline is a choice the player has Main narrative: search for Geralt’s loved ones and conflict with the Wild Hunt Multiple branches of narratives that feed into each other Don’t have to do anything outside the main storyline to beat the game Could have help in a main-line encounter from an ally you gained in the Skellige archipelago if you’ve completed certain quests in certain ways Major events in the main storyline are “gates” for the state of the world Ex: village threatened by bandits might be abandoned after certain ev

I can't wait for people to start comparing this to Skyrim and criticise it for being mainstream like Skyrim takes enough flak. CDPR I promising a lot but I dunno this sounds nice in theory but hard to pull off even for top developers and they have a solid dev team but to make this work well good luck to them. If they take what Skyrim has and just throw that in with the Witcher feel than they have made their game but thats the same thing that Dragon Age 3 is going to do so in a sense there going to be like a elder scrolls instead of a DA or Witcher. There are reprocussions for making an open world game and most of it has to do with content available or a sense of acclompishment and that sort of bothers me. Witcher is based off a novel and doesn't that hinder the narrative I think it does because the open world mechanic is opposing a threat to the narrative. I can see the point if you don't follow interest into the narrative the game slaps your face but you have to take an interest into the characters but video game characters are so poorly characterised its not funny. I never gave a toss about the characters in Witcher 2 because they were all style but no substance and they needed to be more interesting. The game throws dark subject matter to you but anyone can do its not that difficult. The characters need to be more relatable to us. Good side characters is definitely where Bioware should kick CDPR ar$e because the characters in the Witcher 2 boring as fuk and are not as unique from DA, Mass Effect and even Knights of the Old Republic.

At the end of day both of these games are going to be picking up the MMORPG scraps slash the Skyrim open worldness and try and put them in a single player offline experience, its not going to work in my eyes for the Witcher and it might for DA just because of the characters are better constructed.

I think their idea of open world is more along the lines of making the open world to compliment the game, whereas, skyrim (i think) and like GTA, the open world is the game, without it, there would be very little to do in the game.

I think all they want to do in the witcher is to remove the constraints they had, open up the paths, allow the player to go anywhere rather than stick to a corridor, because certainly for witcher 1, there were a lot of invisible walls, it's fine if you want to make a dungeon crawling game, but in the witcher games, outside plays a large role.

I doubt that CDPR would be trying to directly take on skyrim on what it does.

HEY GOOD GAME YOU GOING TO NOTIFY THE FORUM ON WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE SHOW THIS YEAR?

HOPE YOU DO, I UNDERSTAND WE ASK FOR SO MUCH ON THIS FORUM AND THE LOT OF YOU THERE ARE WORKING YOUR LITTLE BUTS OFF OR PROBABLY ON STRIKE FOR A PAYRISE BECAUSE ABC STAFF IS UNDERPAYED AND OVER USED AND NOTHINGS CHANGED SINCE 1996. YEAH I KNOW HOW THAT FEELS BUT DON'T CALL ME I PHILISTINE IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN (wink, wink).

[quote]"When was the last time someone from the ABC or GG bothered to read any of these posts and reply to them?

Enough spam of Pornography would get their attention"[/quote]

There's been a lot of trolling from your IP address under different names, and variations of your name. It's unlikely anyone here would want to reply to posts from your IP/IDs. The exception is when an ABC moderator asks you to please not spam the forum with pornography, or suggest such a thing.

This forum is provided as a fairly basic online space for fans of the show to talk about gaming. We see a lot of great posts, and some trouble also. Banter is a part of gaming, and sometimes it can get quite rude yet still acceptable. But that's in-game. Out here on public ABC forums, you're not in the game anymore, but a public space visible to all and a click away from search engines. Please keep this in mind when using language and tone on the forum.

[quote]"[quote]"When was the last time someone from the ABC or GG bothered to read any of these posts and reply to them?

Enough spam of Pornography would get their attention"[/quote]

There's been a lot of trolling from your IP address under different names, and variations of your name. It's unlikely anyone here would want to reply to posts from your IP/IDs. The exception is when an ABC moderator asks you to please not spam the forum with pornography, or suggest such a thing.

This forum is provided as a fairly basic online space for fans of the show to talk about gaming. We see a lot of great posts, and some trouble also. Banter is a part of gaming, and sometimes it can get quite rude yet still acceptable. But that's in-game. Out here on public ABC forums, you're not in the game anymore, but a public space visible to all and a click away from search engines. Please keep this in mind when using language and tone on the forum. "[/quote]

Gearbox Software screwed up Alien Colonial Marines. The story is on the net and Jim Sterling did a piece on this at the Escapist not too hard to find take a look at it. Many other people also talked about this game failing so its not too hard. Its pretty depressing they stuffed up to as what's known as the best Sci-FI horror by 21st Century Fox. From the E3 2012 tech demo which made the game look phenomenal and now it is a corridor shooter thats boring and repetitive with a 5 hour campaign is a massive lie and they deserve to be frowned upon by the gaming community.

Bajo, Hex you fail to deliver strong criticism where it is needed and your duty as a reviewer is hindering to game advertiser.

Stop saying we couldn't play the multiplayer as we had a code copy. Thats not good enough other reviewers get to play the multiplayer ask for more codes and get everyone in the office and do lan or hold it off for a week and play the multiplayer its a joke how that gets incorporated into the review if the multiplayer is SH!T be honest because the multiplayer looks dull from what youtube shows as the concept is average and maps and game modes offer 3 hours which is also a massive joke.

To Gearbox Software. You fuk around with solid IP's again. Duke Nukem Forever is a comedy and now needs to be become the final boss in Doom so I can BFG-9000 him to hell to get some satisfaction from that game as I was very sad when that game hit the face of the earth.

And Randy Pitchford you're as bad as a video game designer as a CEO as you can't even project manage videogames. If you have a massive development team for Borderlands 2 and were developing Alien Colonial Marines on the side as the release day for Aliens is arriving you delay the project so you can make the game better. Borderlands 2 was a hit so there is no excuse to take your whole dev team off that project and put it on Aliens to fix the games problems and make a better videogame simple you can't do that???

What the fuk is this season pass? you're going to release content for this game in the coming months and call it DLC, stuff originaly made for the game and call it DLC go fuk yourself okay. Story content will come out later, man it is depressing to see this and to do this. I hope Gearbox burns in hell.

Dude calm the feck down. Gearbox isn’t one of my favourite developers either but it’s just a fact of life that you can try and make an awesome game and fail it’s not really their fault. And on the subject of gg being biased, reviewing games is a subjective thing it will never be unbiased just like I enjoy playing train simulator 2013, not everyone would so they would review it, rate it differently. All in all opinions are like ass holes everyone has one.

You're forgetting something every opinion matters. You're right but so am I and I feel that what I am saying should be heard. You have to judge something based fairly and GG have failed to deliver strong criticism and they should be held questioned. Yes I'm hard but hard but that is the only way to get the message across. Their reviews have been bad lately as well as the Gooses time on GG. They don't cover topics like e-sport, building a pc, hackers, indie development and they have a crappy forum and do nothing about it and then Pierithe wants feedback that is more like a sympathy vote. I'll continue being hard.

Fine think like that. You don't want to change nothing that's okay. Keep trying to embarass me, but you're going to say "you're embarrassing yourself" wrong. It's easy to question something or someone and to make someone look like an idiot you know that? I know that so if thats your only way to prove a point its pretty weak.

GG have integrated a dumb commenters section so they can give their score on a game. Its funny how the scores from all the people always average out with Bajo and Hex's score, like little fanboys. The reason you shouldn't side because people who give ratings are attention whores or either 15 year old kids who have barely any understanding of what a good video game is. But that is all up for discussion.

Great job GG you fukked up again.

I saw some people give Colonial Marines a ten stars. That shows no understanding of analysing a product these scores cannot be taken seriously to implement them is dumb but to not consider the consequences is dumber. GG is heading down the Spike Tv and Kotaku lane Adios.

"GG have integrated a dumb commenters section so they can give their score on a game. Its funny how the scores from all the people always average out with Bajo and Hex's score, like little fanboys. The reason you shouldn't side because people who give ratings are attention whores or either 15 year old kids who have barely any understanding of what a good video game is. But that is all up for discussion."

[quote]"I am getting getting so excited for Monster hunter 3 ultimate. :D"[/quote]when the wiiu's price drops i'll get the console and the game too, my main gripe so far is that the western version gets the blue rathalos flagship monster while the japan version gets the official flagship monster of this guy[link]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111020095625/monsterhunter/images/b/b7/MH3G-Bracchidios.png[/link]

so yeah, everyone outside of japan gets stiffed again.Theres a small hope that I think the english version still gets that other monster in the high rank online quests.

If you get the resolution up, it's really worthwhile, huge improvement to graphics quality. FF12 in 1080p is graphically good, has its problems like really short draw distances, but makes the game look quite good.

[quote]"sh!t ton of sequels whats this NEW IP thing called. So saddening."[/quote]

people scream for sequels and are than upset when they come out claiming "we wanted new ip"1) new ip is quite difficult to produce, especially to AAA quality2) people buy sequels so of course they'll be madeand 3) sequels are a safe bet, if Dishonored1 sold a lot of copies chances are Dishonored 2 will as well if for nothing other than Dishonored 1 was awesome

Supercar companies always bring out a new design yearly for a totally new car.Architects, engineers, builders and construction industry monthly push out new building technology for how we work and live and are always thinking of new ways to do things.Books written all time, Shakespeare makes the game industry look like it was run by the Russian Tsars their that backwards.

Videogame industries... nothing. They don't release new IP because they follow cruel business practices and game companies compete each other to death. There is also the problem with that industry the people in it have terrible people skills which is true, I have met game developers before and they are some of the most one-sided thinkers in my time, on par with hipsters and no mediation from publishers to developers.

As I suspected they want people to get the wiiu I do not have one so I can't experience it. I am speculating that Monster Hunter 4 will be on the PS4 for sure Capcom would have to be getting that ready for the new system doing their shifty deals as per such.